MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 169 



DUTCH OCCUPATION OF THE DINDINGS, &c. 



Since the publication of the last number of the Journal/ certain 

 documents have been found among the records in Malacca, which 

 throw further light on the history of the Dutch occupation of 

 stations in Pulau Pangkor, or Dinding, and on the Perak river. 

 The following is a brief precis of the principal of these : — 



Letter from the Governor- General and the Board of Adminis- 

 tration of the United East India Company, dated 1st October, 

 1661. 



Pulau Dinding is mentioned for the first time in an order 

 to cut there 200 pieces of a kind of red-wood to be sent 

 to "Patria" (Holland). 

 Letter from the same, dated 5th August, 1670. 



Order to take possession of Pulau Dinding and to build 

 there a stronghold of wood. 

 Letter from the^same, dated 31st October, 1670. 



Order that the garrison on Pulau Dinding shall consist of 1 

 Sergeant, 3 Soldiers and 3 Sailors, and shall belong to 

 the garrison of Perak. 

 Letter from the same, dated 24th June, 1693. 



Order that no garrison shall be posted again at Pulau Din- 

 ding since the massacre by Panglima Coelop, but that a 

 stone pillar is to be erected there having on one side? 

 the arms of the United East India Company, and, on the 

 other, those of the United Provinces. 

 Letter dated 8th August, 1695. 



Order to re-erect the prostrate pillar and to clean it yearly 

 and keep it in repair. 

 Letter dated 24th June. 1721. 



Repetition of the same order. 

 Letter dated 20th November, 1745. — Governor- General Gus- 

 teaaf "Willem, Baron van Imhofe. 



Order to build again a small fort at Pulau Dinding and to 

 put there a garrison of 30 European and the same 

 number of Native soldiers, but no Bugis. 



